Latest Release: v0.2.0

Forge your creations freely.

High-performance image manipulation featuring a double-buffered Canvas rendering engine, layers support, layer styles, and pixel-perfect precision tools.

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Performance

Features Built for Performance

Every part of Forge is designed to keep complex workspaces responsive and precise.

Double-Buffered Canvas

Real-time edits rendered at a constant 60fps. No stutters on ultra-high-resolution images thanks to our offscreen rendering strategy.

Non-Destructive Layers

Group, blend, and order Raster, Text, or Vector layers. Modify properties without permanently altering the original pixels.

Pixel-Perfect Precision

Dynamic rulers, adjustable magnetic guides, and mathematical transformations for rotation, scaling, and distortion without loss of visual quality.

OpenCreate Forge Document

Save your work in the native OpenCreate Forge Document format. Compact, JSON-based with smart binary encoding, preserving your history and editor state.

Developer view

Extendable by Design

Want to create your own brush, filter, or selection tool? Forge's architecture allows you to create new tools by inheriting from the base class.

Architecture that stays out of your way.

Forge keeps the editor logic split, typed, and stateful only where it matters, so tools can evolve without turning the UI into a maintenance burden.

Clean architecture

Electron Main and Renderer responsibilities stay isolated.

Native TypeScript

Tool actions are strongly typed to catch mistakes early.

Zustand stores

Selection and history live outside the React tree.

Tools can be extended without rewriting the engine

import { BaseTool, ToolContext, ToolId } from "@core/tools/BaseTool"

export class CustomTool extends BaseTool {
  id: ToolId = "custom"

  async onMouseDown(e: MouseEvent, context: ToolContext): Promise<void> {
    // Custom logic on click here
  }

  onMouseMove(e: MouseEvent, context: ToolContext): void {
    // Instant rendering on mouse cursor here
  }
}

Downloads

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Linux

AppImage (x86_64)

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macOS

Apple Silicon (arm64)

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Windows

Windows 10/11 (x86_64)

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